Friday, September 30, 2011

"Poland vows to veto any EU law on shale gas fracking"

I guess they're more afraid of Russia than they are of France or German Greens.
From iol's Business Report:

POLAND would veto any EU legislation that
threatened its sovereignty in energy policy, Maciej Olex-Szczytowski, an
adviser to the Polish foreign minister on economics and business, said
yesterday.

“We’re going to veto any attempt
of interference in our sovereignty in the sphere of energy policy,”
Olex-Szczytowski said at a conference in Krakow when asked about a
potential initiative to pass EU legislation regulating shale-gas
exploration.

Poland, which is seeking to reduce
its reliance on Russian gas, might hold enough fuel trapped in shale to
meet its needs for 300 years, the US Department of Energy said in
April.

France, like Poland a member of
the EU, in July became the first country in the world to ban hydraulic
fracturing – whereby water, sand and chemicals are pumped into rock to
release trapped fuel – amid concern it may contaminate water supplies....MORE